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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: allow dead men to control live communities by ridiculous wills and
living heirs to squander and ruin great estates, nor tolerate a
hundred other absurd liberties that we allow today because we are too
lazy to find out the proper way to interfere. But the interference
must be regulated by some theory of the individual's rights. Though
the right to live is absolute, it is not unconditional. If a man is
unbearably mischievous, he must be killed. This is a mere matter of
necessity, like the killing of a man-eating tiger in a nursery, a
venomous snake in the garden, or a fox in the poultry yard. No
society could be constructed on the assumption that such extermination
is a violation of the creature's right to live, and therefore must not
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